What would happen if Kerbal Space Program was sold to EA?

[pauldbk99]

Feel free to write your creepypastas here!

Alot of Kerbals were hurt in the making of this thread.

[Xetalim]

Development would stop.

EA only releases unfinished games

[TMS]

Orbital gas station DLC.

[Kaptain]

Then there would be 30-40 expansions adding thousands of parts and the game would run at 10 fps forever.

[Red Iron Crown]

We would all be required to have Origin accounts to install and play the game we paid for. Support through Origin would cease when the game stops selling enough, rendering all copies useless.

The existing developers would be kept on but eventually start leaving as the sweatshop conditions for programmers begin to take their toll. They would be replaced by monkeys banging on keyboards.

The next release would be 1.0. Subsequent releases would be expansion packs that require further payment.

[Victus]

It would be a 64 bit...

[the_bT]

EA does something stupid, game becomes unavailable, community turns to playing with real rockets, accidentally stuff falls onto corporate head quarters. There was nothing that could have avoided this tragedy...

[Pecan]

1. There would be a huge amount of advertising hype with the release-date set for September.

2. During the interval the dev team would be doubled, and productivity quartered, to add various 'game' features and make sure it wasn't what anyone wanted.

3. At the set time KSP v1.0 would be launched with even more hype and the dev team re-assigned.

4. Around January v1.1 would be released with prettier pictures, easier gameplay, a couple of bugs fixed and many more introduced.

5. There no number 5 because KSP would be too hard to appeal to casual gamers and too nerfed to appeal to KSP veterans.

6. In 2017 EA would release 'never mind the quality, look at the pictures' KSP2 with a blaze of publicity. It would be panned for its simplistic, buggy gameplay and sink without trace.

[Felsmak]

It would turn into a Sci-Fi-ish war game.

[Red Iron Crown]

Development of gameplay features would be replaced with development of custom Kerbal faces and wardrobes. Current title dropped in favor of The Sims - Let's Go to Space!

[Spartan-S63]

1. There would be a huge amount of advertising hype with the release-date set for September.

2. During the interval the dev team would be doubled, and productivity quartered, to add various 'game' features and make sure it wasn't what anyone wanted.

3. At the set time KSP v1.0 would be launched with even more hype and the dev team re-assigned.

4. Around January v1.1 would be released with prettier pictures, easier gameplay, a couple of bugs fixed and many more introduced.

5. There no number 5 because KSP would be too hard to appeal to casual gamers and too nerfed to appeal to KSP veterans.

6. In 2017 EA would release 'never mind the quality, look at the pictures' KSP2 with a blaze of publicity. It would be panned for its simplistic, buggy gameplay and sink without trace.

I think you forgot the part where KSP 1.0 wouldn't have mod support because it would be "too difficult" for modders to effectively use the tools. And also, so they could produce DLC that people would actually buy.

[Kaptain]

This thread is just too funny, I am enjoying this today!

[SkyRender]

We would see Kerbal Space Program 2, Kerbal Space Program 3, Kerbal Space Program: Origins, and Kerbal Space Program: Relaunched all released within 5 years of each other, each one being a barely-modified variant of the previous game.

[pauldbk99]

Great responses so far!

I could imagine something like this:

Base game: 15$

One part: 0,49$

Persistence: 10$

One planet/moon: 3,49$ (The Mun/Minmus pack is going to be 4,29$)

One unit of fuel: 0,01$ (That is going to be reaaally expensive with the 0.23.5 parts)

Edited June 21, 2014 by pauldbk99

[EuSouONumero345]

I donno

Probably lotsa sequels with little to no improvement besides graphics.

Useless dlcs that cost a lot.

The removal of Jeb, substituted by John Madden.

Edited June 21, 2014 by EuSouONumero345

[Xorth Tanovar]

The removal of Jeb, substituted by John Madden.

OMG, I just mentally heard his voice "Here's a guy that thinks he's going to the Mun."

[Crashy_McSplodey]

I'm crying here, a little at the funny, but a little at the sad... I have NEVER forgiven them for the travesty that was the end of ME3... And I never will!

And don't forgt this one guys:

1) Constant internet connection required to play.

[01smito01]

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Edited February 5 by 01smito01
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[Tangle]

1. Paid DLC for 0.625, 1.25, 2.5, 3.75, and 5.

2. Paid DLC for heat shields- did I mention that there would be deadly reentry?

3. Paid DLC for Veterans.

4. Paid DLC for everything beyond Kerbin and Mun.

5. Career unlocks cost real money.

6. Infinity loading screens and bad flags.

7. Paid DLC for engines. ALL OF THEM. FOR 260 EUROS.

[WinkAllKerb'']

oh, strange was thinking it's already sold by Early Access i might had misunderstood

[colmo]

The average IQ of EA games players would double.

[spaceman1999]

Oh God NOOOOOOOOO!

[pxi]

Over a hundred cities to unlock for Kerbin @ €2.99 each

Hopes and dreams expansion

Free McDonalds part which makes it twice as easy to get into space for some reason - free with any happy meal for a limited time.

edit

all physics processed on ea servers, for totally not DRM reasons.

Edited July 4, 2014 by pxi

[Helix935]

i ask the same question except it was about Steam, so i will repeat what they said in context of KSP....

price will double and thousands will die

thousands of unnecessary expansions

EA will continue ruining lives as gamer will weep every where and descend to anarchy

so on and so forth and apparently there response to our opinions

the laughter inducing response to our hatred of them

[Overfloater]

It would cost about 900$ to have the game complete with all of it's expansion packs which make the game super unstable.